How Is Our Culture Contributing To The Rise In Satanic And Occult Activities?

How Is Our Culture Contributing To The Rise In Satanic And Occult Activities? In More Ways Than You Can Even Imagine!




In “The Occult Roars Back: Its Modern Resurgence,” Richard Kyle, Professor of 
History and Religious Studies at Tabor College in Kansas, quotes several academic experts who have written about the causes of the sharp increase in interest in the occult. Jeffrey Russell, for example, noted that, historically, “interest in the occult has grown significantly in periods of rapid social breakdown, when establishments cease to provide readily acceptable answers and people turn elsewhere for assurance.” But, Kyle adds, there is also a uniquely American foundation for the rise of interest in the occult, one proposed by Catherine Albanese, who — “points out that many people were ‘prepared by American culture to turn toward self’ and the universe in their pursuit for religious certainty. The Protestant tradition had generally supported the importance of knowledge or belief in religion. Then the liberal wing of Protestantism modified this approach. It ‘stressed the presence of God everywhere’ and underscored American optimism concerning the innate goodness of human nature. Liberalism’s ‘diffusiveness and lack of strong boundaries’ helped people to adjust to the idea of living...